October 19, 2011 at 2:43pm
sportsmississippi
Source: Los Angeles Times
A fierce, ancient game deep in Mississippi: Choctaw stickball is violent, with few rules, and defiantly true to its Native American roots. Photo: After the final game of the Choctaw World Series of Stickball in Choctaw, Miss., James Denson, No. 9, and his Beaver Dam teammates greet their opponents from Conehatta. Credit: Baxter Holmes / Los Angeles Times

A fierce, ancient game deep in Mississippi: Choctaw stickball is violent, with few rules, and defiantly true to its Native American roots.

Photo: After the final game of the Choctaw World Series of Stickball in Choctaw, Miss., James Denson, No. 9, and his Beaver Dam teammates greet their opponents from Conehatta. Credit: Baxter Holmes / Los Angeles Times